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The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees and district leaders will discuss the district’s reopening plan in detail during the board briefing happening Aug. 13. The board briefing starts at 11:30 a.m. and is available to watch live on Facebook in English and Spanish or on MyVRSpot. During Thursday’s meeting, district leaders will also brief trustees on how Dallas ISD plans to offer extracurricular, co-curricular and elective course offerings to students who choose at-home learning and how the district plans to mitigate learning loss caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Dallas ISD Social and Emotional Learning Department is providing seven helpful tips to incorporate social and emotional learning at home. When your child is feeling stressed, ask how they feel: When you do check-in about feelings, you are sending the message that their feelings matter and that you care. When your child has a hard time making a decision, provide choices and respect their wishes: When children have a chance to make choices, they learn how to solve problems. Letting children make decisions teaches them that their ideas, feelings, and perspective matter. When feelings and social issues are difficult…

Dallas ISD is hiring substitute teachers for the upcoming school year to help assist with in-person and virtual virtual learning. The district is looking for candidates who have a minimum of 60 college hours or a bachelor’s degree; however, they are not required to be certified. Interested potential candidates can go here to learn more and apply. Substitute teachers will receive the health and safety training provided by the district. The pay to work as a substitute teacher is: Dallas ISD Rate  Teacher Assistant $78 Teacher Non-Degreed $85 Teacher Degreed $100 Teacher Certified $110 Retired Dallas ISD Teacher* $120 Special Education…

More than 600 Dallas ISD educators on Monday attended a webinar on “Self-Care, Healing, & Equity-Responsive Practices When the World Feels Heavy” led by Dena Simmons, Ed.D., Assistant Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. This webinar was put on by SEL Dallas, a local collective between Dallas ISD, Big Thought, Dallas Afterschool and City of Dallas Parks & Recreation.  Simmons’ keynote talk explored self-care strategies to help staff cope with isolation, uncertainty, burnout, and the collective traumas of COVID-19 and America’s reckoning with race. She also shared practices to address Black trauma and ways to be an anti-racist…